David Weigel
@daveweigel
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Covering politics for @semafor. Alum: @washingtonpost, @business, @slate. [email protected]. Buy my book: https://t.co/6sWfZ4MNgH
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Joined February 2008
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Good NBERs lately: The widening mortality divide between college educated and not, urban and rural, appears to mostly come down to smoking. https://t.co/m4waArdeHe
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The most depressing thing about this, even as a guy who isn’t a selfie guy, is that the thing about a selfie is that it’s a reminder of an in-person interaction, something to remind yourself you were there. Creating simulacra of that, to chase clout, is so goddamn depressing.
In 2–3 years, there will be no way to tell what’s real and what’s not… and I have no idea how humanity will deal with this enormous problem.
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Rewarding to see the effort to advance socialist public policy taken seriously in the paper of record. https://t.co/Y0MJiByS1f
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The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting intense interest and getting elected to office.
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VP VANCE: "President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeated purity tests... I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform... The best way to honor Charlie is that none of us here
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JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
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So many Democrats exposed. Everyone from Bill Clinton, who we already knew hung out with Epstein, to Bill Clinton, who we already knew hung out with Epstein. Dems are decimated.
We are watching history unfold. We just witnessed Trump completely bait the Democrats into begging for the Epstein files only to expose themselves.
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"More than 100,000 people in the US are in need of a transplant, and each year thousands die waiting. But despite the shortage of organs, some American hospitals are aggressively courting international transplant patients, a NYT investigation found." https://t.co/dkN2ooBaYh
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International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients.
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Has everyone been kicked in the head by a horse.
Has anyone explained why Biden didn’t release the Epstein files?
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I recently saw a clip where Candace was regurgitating the line that actually it was Jews who were responsible for the slave trade. She's also now promoting a very old book that is filled with demonstrable and obvious fabrications. Looks like she's speedrunning through some of the
Hold the presses! My schpidey-sense told me to look into the book, "The Talmudic Jew," by August Rohling, that Candace is holding up in her latest video. It tells us a tremendous amount about Candace Owens.
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Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City’s new mayor on Jan. 1, alongside a party spanning seven blocks that will accommodate 40,000 spectators, his transition team said.
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Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City’s new mayor on Jan. 1, alongside a party spanning seven blocks that will accommodate 40,000 spectators, his transition team said.
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Nicki Minaj just walked out onstage with Erika Kirk at Turning Point’s AmericaFest “I love both of them” Minaj says about both Trump and Vance.
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Excellent @noturtlesoup17 report from the ground in NO (where her handle is sacrilege!) on the impact community activists are having stymying Lil’ Greg Bovino https://t.co/b63CYa057h
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Excellent @noturtlesoup17 report from the ground in NO (where her handle is sacrilege!) on the impact community activists are having stymying Lil’ Greg Bovino https://t.co/b63CYa057h
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What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
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Here's the 315,000 vote issue as I understand it. 315,000 people voted early in Fulton County. Someone should have signed the machine count tallies, to show they were verified. /1
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Periodic reminder that housing cannot be both affordable and a means of building wealth. Those two concepts are diametrically opposed to each other. If you're going to make housing affordable for young people it's going to reduce the wealth of the Boomers.
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Spoke to a group of 100 billionaires about passive income in the sauna last night Asked if any of them were feeling too hot A few raised their hands I increased the temperature and disabled the emergency shutoff Then I wheeled in an ice water vending machine to the front
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